How to Use Git Branches as Low-Risk Experiments

Every branch is a hypothesis you can discard without cost.

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Branch freely for ideas that might fail. Merge when evidence supports; delete when it does not.

Merge conflicts are decisions, not accidents — choose which reality to keep deliberately.

Keep branches short-lived. Long branches become second products with hidden integration tax.

Abandoned branches are compost, not failure. They informed the path you shipped.

Experimentation requires cheap rollback. Git provides it — use it.

— JV · Dark Heart Labs.